https://england.shelter.org.uk/media/press_release/at_least_354000_people_homeless_in_england_today_ Shelter warns of a bleak winter for many as homelessness rises by 14% in a year
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Support for people sleeping rough this winter
https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2024/support-people-sleeping-rough-winter The city’s Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) is set up to offer warm accommodation for people sleeping rough this winter. The support will open when the temperature is predicted to feel like zero degrees Celsius, or there’s an amber weather warning. This is one of the lowest triggers for offering SWEP accommodation for people sleeping…
The Renters’ Rights Bill Second Reading
https://www.generationrent.org/2024/10/09/the-renters-rights-bill-second-reading/ The Renters’ Rights Bill is back in Parliament today. It is having its second reading, which is the first time it is debated by MPs. The Bill offers some long overdue protections from arbitrary eviction, and improving standards in our homes. However, further measures are needed to shield tenants from the cost of renting…
Homelessness services at risk as funding cliff-edge looms, warn leading organisations in the sector
https://www.mungos.org/homelessness-services-at-risk/ 23 leading homelessness organisations, including St Mungo’s, Shelter and Centrepoint, have called on the Government to protect vital funding for homelessness, which is due to end in March 2025. The Rough Sleeping Initiative funding (RSI) is an integral source of governmental funding to get and keep people off the streets. Demand for the organisations’…
A Roadmap for Reform – the Renters’ Reform Coalition’s Plan for Reforming Private Renting
https://rentersreformcoalition.co.uk/roadmap-reform-renters-reform-coalitions-plan-reforming-private-renting Here is an overview of some of our key recommendations.
Uprating Local Housing Allowance: Briefing Note
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publications/uprating-local-housing-allowance-briefing-note/ Uprating LHA by rent cost increases Our strong recommendation is that the government uprates LHA rates in line with how the policy was originally designed, ie the increase in the cost of the 30th percentile rental property in each BRMA (expected to be an average of around 8.24%). Furthermore, this should be the norm…
Landmark reforms to give greater security for 11 million renters
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/landmark-reforms-to-give-greater-security-for-11-million-renters Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner said: Renters have been let down for too long and too many are stuck in disgraceful conditions, powerless to act because of the threat of a retaliatory eviction hanging over them. Most landlords act in a responsible way but a small number of unscrupulous ones are tarnishing the reputation…
Data on the number of households applying to local authorities for housing assistance under the Housing (Wales) Act 2014
https://www.gov.wales/homelessness-april-2023-march-2024-html Data on the number of households applying to local authorities for housing assistance under the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 and the number of households in temporary accommodation for April 2023 to March 2024.